Several at-home moms. One actuary-to-teacher (many more teachers-to-actuaries, though).

Heard of one who became a baker, unsucessful. (A colleague of mine had just heard from an actuary friend who he used to work with who had quit to open a bakery. Bakery was failing. Wanted to know what the prospects were to get back into the field for more financial stability. He advised her that financial stability was not enough motivation. If she was miserable before, she would be miserable again. I always kind of wondered what she ultimately decided.)

One became an antiques dealer, but that was more a post-retirement gig.

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"No one remembers 5K and I wrote a nice poem for the occassion. No one remember's 10k. No one will remember 20k either." - Sir Post-A-Lot

"One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms."
-- Constitutional scholar and Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, 1840

"The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other peoples' money." -- Margaret Thatcher

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." -- George Washington

__________________Liberals tend to view themselves as live-and-let-live people.... We’re the nice guys. We believe in tolerance, diversity, and letting people be what they have to be. It’s hard for us to credit the idea that someone could be afraid of us.

Someone is. And for good reasons. Understanding that uncomfortable fact is the first step towards grasping what has been going on in this country’s politics for the last quarter century. Red Family, Blue Family

I love that. Years ago, someone I know took some personality / capabilities test, and was told that the attributes necessary to be a good actuary were the same as those to be a good economist. I believe that makes perfect sense. I've always viewed actuarial work as a somewhat narrow area of applied economics. Sorry if that takes the luster off it for anyone, but that's the way I see it. For me, it adds luster to what we do.

I know FSAs who have become piano tuners and non-financial software developers.

Well , millions of wasted dollars and many pissed off duped countries seems to be the sine qua non , at least in the former case ,of both fields. Shock treatment indeed , but not in the way it was stated.